Generating RESTful Webservices from entity classes in a netbeans maven webapp causes app to fail, displaying "Payara Server, deploy, null, false"

Question

I want to make a persistence microservice for my application with jee 8.The resource endpoint works well with a simple PersistenceResource class. I have generated the entities from the mysql database and the app still works fine. Unfortunately, the moment i generate 'RESTful WebServices from entity classes' payara server fails to run. The message in the server log is

Deploying on Payara Server profile mode: false debug mode: false force redeploy: true In-place deployment at /home/nkengasong/NetBeansProjects/CreatixxPersistence/target/CreatixxPersistence Payara Server, deploy, null, false

The same error is displayed when i generate Session Beans For Entity Classes. Please what might be the problem? I have been searching the internet for hours now.

The app is a traditional maven-archetype-webapp and i am using:

NetBeans IDE 9.0

Payara Server

Java EE 8

Open JDK 11

Ubuntu 18.04 lts (same problem on windows 10)

Below is my pom.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"> 4.0.0

<groupId>com.jee8ng</groupId>
<artifactId>CreatixxPersistence</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>war</packaging>

<name>CreatixxPersistence Maven Webapp</name>
<!-- FIXME change it to the project's website -->
<url>http://www.example.com</url>

<properties>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
    <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
    <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
    <failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
</properties>  

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.eclipse.persistence</groupId>
        <artifactId>org.eclipse.persistence.core</artifactId>
        <version>2.5.2</version>
        <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.eclipse.persistence</groupId>
        <artifactId>org.eclipse.persistence.asm</artifactId>
        <version>2.5.2</version>
        <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.eclipse.persistence</groupId>
        <artifactId>org.eclipse.persistence.antlr</artifactId>
        <version>2.5.2</version>
        <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.eclipse.persistence</groupId>
        <artifactId>org.eclipse.persistence.jpa</artifactId>
        <version>2.5.2</version>
        <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.eclipse.persistence</groupId>
        <artifactId>org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.jpql</artifactId>
        <version>2.5.2</version>
        <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.eclipse.persistence</groupId>
        <artifactId>javax.persistence</artifactId>
        <version>2.1.0</version>
        <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.eclipse.persistence</groupId>
        <artifactId>org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.modelgen.processor</artifactId>
        <version>2.5.2</version>
        <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>javax</groupId>
        <artifactId>javaee-api</artifactId>
        <version>8.0</version>
        <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>javax.json</groupId>
        <artifactId>javax.json-api</artifactId>
        <version>1.1</version>
        <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>      
    <dependency>
        <groupId>javax.json.bind</groupId>
        <artifactId>javax.json.bind-api</artifactId>
        <version>1.0</version>
        <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>io.swagger</groupId>
        <artifactId>swagger-annotations</artifactId>
        <version>1.5.16</version>
        <type>jar</type>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>mysql</groupId>
        <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
        <version>8.0.13</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>junit</groupId>
        <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
        <version>4.12</version>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

<build>
    <finalName>CreatixxPersistence</finalName>
    <pluginManagement><!-- lock down plugins versions to avoid using Maven defaults (may be moved to parent pom) -->
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <artifactId>maven-clean-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.0.0</version>
            </plugin>
            <!-- see http://maven.apache.org/ref/current/maven-core/default-bindings.html#Plugin_bindings_for_war_packaging -->
            <plugin>
                <artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.0.2</version>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.7.0</version>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.20.1</version>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.2.0</version>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <artifactId>maven-install-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.5.2</version>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <artifactId>maven-deploy-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.8.2</version>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </pluginManagement>
</build>

This is the structure of the app:

Here is the structure of the application

I seriously need help! Please why is that the app stops running when i generate the webservices or sessions? How can i remedy this? Thanks in advance

Answer 1

I finally solved the problem by switching to NetBeans 8.2 and changing the default @XmlTransient annotation on certain fields of the entity classes to @JsonbTransient (this avoids stackoverflow error, if you intend to use JSON instead of XML). By default, when you generate entity classes from the database, certain fields get annotated with @XmlTransient. I switched netbeans because apparently NetBeans IDE 9.0 is not stable. I hope this helps someone. Thanks to everyone for you help!

Answer 2

Payara server is not yet fully compatible with JDK 11. You still need a JDK 8 version.